Cell phone number theft racket busted in Odisha, 2 held

BHUBANESWAR: How about the mobile number that you are using all of a sudden goes defunct, gets used by another person within the next few hours while the SIM card is with you?

Police here unearthed such a mobile number theft racket and arrested two former employees of a telecom company here on Saturday.

Deputy Commissioner of Police Umashankar Dash said a gang involving these two and their associates stole at least 36 vanity mobile numbers and digitally transferred the numbers to others without the knowledge of the original customers who had paid a premium to buy these. The police are also investigating if the stolen numbers were used to make bank fraud of the original users.